Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:43:19 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: new google literature tool
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
>> <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 12/19/2010 10:16 AM >>>
>> Mike B. wrote:
>>> On 12/18/2010 4:24 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>>> "Mike B."<yahoo at omniphile.com>  12/18/2010 3:50 PM>>>
>>>>> On 12/18/2010 3:39 AM, ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>>>>>> In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By PATRICIA COHEN
>>>>> Wow!  And just to prove that people never change, the first search I =
> =
>>>>> put in was for "fuck".  Interesting result too.  Especially if you
>>>>> extend the time back to 1500.
>>>> Note the search is case sensitive.
>>> It would be nicer if it used regular expressions.
>> I wish google as a whole would at least offer single quotes, so that it
>> does *not* try to interpret what I want, since they're *wrong*. For
>> example, I'd really like to try to look up an old friend, the artist Mel.
>> White, and that *is* M-E-L-period.
>
> Not surewhat you mean by "single quotes".

In std. o/s, not WinDoze, single quotes around a string means "do not
try to interpret the contents" - a period gets treated, usually, by
google as either whitespace, or an error, or ignored, and the last time
I tried to find Mel., I got pages and pages and pages and not a single
hit... or maybe I got a few hits, but they were 10 and more years old.

mark

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